McClaren Robotics

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McClaren Robotics is a company from the Revenge of the Fallen portion of the movie continuity family. It is also known as Massive Dynamics.

Needing to cover up the battle of Mission City and the very public Transformer activity it involved, the American government fabricated a company it could use as a scapegoat. That company was McClaren Robotics, and the Transformers were passed off as autonomous biomechanical constructs developed for rescue and evacuation which wandered off their test site when the global communication blackout knocked the Global Positioning System offline.

Fiction

IDW Transformers movie comics

After hunting down and destroying the Decepticons Swindle and Dead End in San Francisco, William Lennox's NEST team called upon clean up crews in McClaren Robotics trucks, noting that if anyone saw the Transformers, they would use "the usual story." Alliance #4

Revenge of the Fallen novel

The government's dissemblers had come up with a company name that suggested it might manufacture anything from supertankers to swizzle sticks.{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:Revenge of the Fallen novelizationp27|Revenge of the Fallen novelization{{#if:p27|, p27|}}|}}

Sam Witwicky watched congressional testimony about the Mission City incident from Massive Dynamics with disgust. Revenge of the Fallen (novel)

The Last Prime

Sam watched a television report on the findings of the Wyatt Commission in their investigation into McClaren Robotics. The commission placed all responsibility on the company, and dismissed other speculation as mere conspiracy theory. The Last Prime

Notes

McClaren Robotics was originally intended to play a small role in Revenge of the Fallen, serving as an explanation for why the existence of Transformers was still not public knowledge, but like a lot of other plot points over the course of the film's strike-ridden production, it was quietly dropped, and factored only into a select few prequels and adaptations. The company went through at least three separate working names, all of which it appeared under in various bits of fiction—the third was Mendelson Robotics, which appeared only in the online alternate reality game. We have listed this article under "McClaren Robotics" as that name appears most often (twice, versus the single appearances of the others), and given Mendelson Robotics its own article, as it, like Reggie Simmons, occupies a separate continuity in which it is part of a "real life" cover-up.
Actor Steve Tom was to play the company's CEO in this dropped story element, variously identified as the "McClaren Robotics CEO" in an April 2008 casting call<ref name="iesbcall">Casting call at IESB, April 2008</ref> and a July 2008 entry on IMDb,<ref name="tfwimdbtom">TFW2005 referencing an (unarchived) IMDB entry for Steve Tom and his alleged role in Revenge</ref> and the "Massive Dynamics CEO" on Theiapolis Cinema.<ref name="theiarotf">Theiapolis Cinema entry for Revenge</ref> Tom evidently did record his scenes, as his resume continues to list him as a member of the cast (albeit with the slightly specious descriptor of him as a "principal" actor).<ref name="stevetom">Resume of actor Steve Tom</ref>
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci named "Massive Dynamics" after the fictional company "Massive Dynamic" from their television series [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Fringe (TV series)|{{#if:Fringe|Fringe|Fringe (TV series)}}]].

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